2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Badger gives you 2 points

The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. However, if you do predict a draw and it's a match that won't be going to a replay, you can get a possible extra point by stating which of the two teams you think will eventually win.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in.
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.  


At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.

The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.

We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.

The second season will start the following week, which is usually the FA Cup 3rd round, finishing on the last game of the League One season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.

Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of League One fixtures and bonus matches, hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.

The random badger is restricted to three goal scorers in any of the fixtures in your group.

Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......


*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.

Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.

Substitute or scorer in one of the Town games:- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.

Prediction League Archive: https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=12830

Division One table after Matchday 12:

1. Baggiebob(BBB) = 203 pts
   
2. jjamez = 199 pts
   
3. neonfoxinthebox = 180 pts
   
4. Lord Snooty = 166 pts
   
5. ritchiebaby = 155 pts
   
6. SHEP_HTAFC = 137 pts
   

Thursday 23rd October:
League One:
Exeter City v Plymouth Argyle (20:00)

Saturday 25th October:
League One:
Wycombe v Town
Town scorers:
Wycombe scorers:

Mansfield Town v Wigan Athletic (12:30)
Barnsley v Rotherham United
Northampton Town v Luton Town
Peterborough United v Blackpool

Sunday 26th October:
Premier League:
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Burnley (14:00)

Monday 27th October:
League One:
Port Vale v Stockport County (20:00)

Tuesday 28th October:
Bradford City v Lincoln City

EFL Cup 4th round:
Wrexham v Cardiff City (20:00)

Wednesday 29th October:
Arsenal v Brighton & Hove Albion
Liverpool v Crystal Palace

Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Rangers

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

1. themaclad = 204 pts
   
2. theo_luddite = 194 pts
   
3. Devongone = 179 pts
   
4. Amelia Chaffinch = 160 pts
   
5. St Charles Owl = 159 pts
   
6. WakeyTerrier = 155 pts
   

Friday 24th October:
Championship:
Preston North End v Sheffield United (20:00)

Saturday 25th October:
Sheffield Wednesday v Oxford United

League One:
Wycombe v Town
Town scorers:
Wycombe scorers:

Bolton Wanderers v Cardiff City (12:30)
AFC Wimbledon v Burton Albion
Leyton Orient v Lincoln City
Reading v Doncaster Rovers
Stevenage v Bradford City

League Two:
Tranmere Rovers v Chesterfield

Sunday 26th October:
Premier League:
Everton v Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)

Tuesday 28th October:
League One:
Mansfield Town v Plymouth Argyle

EFL Cup 4th round:
Grimsby Town v Brentford

Wednesday 29th October:
Swansea City v Manchester City

*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***

Group A

A.A.A. 22
Minizin 20
B.B.B. 18
BaggieOne 17
Zimnan 16
Stairs 15
BaggieVicar 13
Twerton 7

Excellent week for nearly everyone with a season's second highest total of 128 points including 4 players setting new weekly season high scores, the Brighton win over Newcastle setting a new single game score with 22 points and the group as a whole securing a season high 14 correct scores!!

AAA scored 22 points for his first top spot of the season. He scored on 7 games including 3 CSs with one of these being the Bonus, if only he could have got anything on the Gamball he could have set a season high score!! Minizin continues his consistency with 20 points in 2nd place helped by 2 CSs, one on the Gamball and positive points on all his balls. BBB is 3rd with 18 points, by far his best week since Week 1.

BaggieOne is 4th with 17 points, a bit of a return to the sort of form he was showing earlier in the season, he scored on 7 games but unlike others he failed to turn any of them into Correct Scores to keep his score down a bit. Zinman is 5th, not used to typing his name this early in the write up but this week he set a new high score for himself of 16 points, so a definite improvement for him!! Like his superior Zin family member he did manage a CS on the Gamball along with 2 other CSs but missed on his Bonus.

Stairs is 6th with 15 points and BaggieVicar had a season high 13 points in 7th spot. Both of them scored maximums on the Bonus but not much else overall. Bottom spot this week belongs to Twerton with 7 points, secured with a CR on the Gamball and one CS.

116 BaggieOne
105 Minizin
99 Stairs
80 Twerton
78 A.A.A.
71 B.B.B.
70 BaggieVicar
45 Zinman

BaggieOne's lead at the top of the table is now down to just 11 over Minizin, the closest anyone has been to him since week 4!! Both him and Minizin raced past the 100 points mark this week as well. Stairs is still 3rd and only a point off his century and the top 3 have now opened a 19 point gap on the rest!!

Twerton is top of the rest with 80 points, closely followed by AAA in 5th, BBB in 6th and BaggieVicar in 7th. BaggieVicar is riding a bit of a rollercoaster, up one week, down the next, this week he dropped 2 places after gaining those a couple of week ago!!

Zinman must be slightly frustrated, he put in a season high score for himself yet still finished in the bottom half of the weekly table and has seen the gap above him stretch to 25 points despite his season best effort!!!!

Cheers
SCO


Group B

Lady Jane 28 (twenty eight) - yes, I'm old enough to remember the BBC teleprinter.
Amelia 15
Snooty 14
Derby 13
SCO 11
Salop 10
4eva 6
Themaclad 3

A record setting week for Group B. For the first time this season we saw a three figure total points haul, with the highest number of correct results, 41 - 11 higher than the previous best. We saw a rare positive return for the gamball and, possibly for the first time ever, one player got every single result correct. 10 out of 10 for Lady Jane!

Not surprisingly Lady Jane sits on top of the table with a season's high score of 28 points. As well as 10 correct results, she also got 2 correct scores plus the scoreball. She was also the only player to score on the gamball. 15 points would have been enough to secure top spot most weeks but Amelia has to settle for 2nd place with 6 correct results, half of them spot on but missing out on both of the main balls. Snooty takes 3rd, one fewer correct result and scores than Amelia but scoring on his bonus.

Derby, SCO and Salop all reached double figures, Derby and SCO scoring on 5 games though SCO was the only player this week not to predict a correct score. Salop is a point behind SCO with all 3 players scoring on their gamballs.

Not such a good week for 4eva and Themaclad. 4eva matched Salop's number of correct scores and results but was the only player to miss out on all his balls. Themaclad trailed by some distance with only 2 correct predictions though at least he managed to avoid a negative score!

83 SCO
77 Lady Jane
73 4eva
68 Snooty
66 Themaclad
61 Derby
54 Amelia
45 Salop

SCO retains his lead but Lady Jane's amazing week sees her jump from 5th to 2nd place. Early pacesetter Themaclad drops to 5th having secured just 7 points from the last 3 weeks - Zinman like scoring!

Zin

Gamball:
Portsmouth - Stoke

Others:
Man Utd - Brighton
Ipswich - WBA
Blackburn - Southampton
Bristol C - Birmingham
Derby - QPR
Millwall - Leicester
Sheff Wed - Oxford
Wolves - Burnley
Everton - Spurs

Notts County defender Lewis Macari has been given a suspended three-month ban for breaching betting rules over the course of almost three years.

The 23-year-old has also been fined £750 by an independent regulatory commission and warned about his conduct after he pleaded guilty to placing 354 bets on matches between 25 February, 2020 and 4 December, 2022.

However, he will not serve a suspension as long he does not break the Football Association's rules on betting again in the next 12 months.

None of the bets Macari made came during his time with League Two side Notts County.

The Scottish defender, who is the grandson of former Manchester United midfielder and ex-Stoke City boss Lou Macari, was on the books at Stoke when he placed the bets.

Of the 354 bets made across four different seasons, 44 were placed on Stoke during his time there.

Among the bets was an £5 accumulator that included Stoke's Under-23 side beating Kidsgrove Athletic in the English County Cup.

While he was part of that team, it was not a match he was involved in. And, while Stoke won, other results went against him meaning the bet was unsuccessful.

In total, he placed just over £3,000 worth of bets and made a net loss of about £470.

With the bets placed when Macari was aged between 18 and 20, it was stated in the regulatory commission's written reasons, external that he "demonstrated a level of wilful ignorance as to the FA betting rules".

During the time that Macari placed bets, he also had a loan spell with Dundalk in the League of Ireland.

It was there, and his his exposure to first-team football, that the player argued that he "realised that he could not be betting when he was a 'proper' professional".

In an interview during the investigation into his bets, Macari said he was aware of betting rules but added he was "not quite switched on into thinking it really mattered to me" as he had not been around first teams.

In July, just a week after Macari had been charged, Notts boss Martin Paterson said the club would "support and protect" their player.

The defender has remained part of the squad throughout, featured in pre-season matches on the club's trip to Germany soon after he was charged and has since gone on to feature five times for the Magpies this season.

Aldershot Town manager Tommy Widdrington has resigned, five months after winning the FA Trophy with the National League side.

The 54-year-old had been at the Shots since April 2023 and signed a new two year contract in August.

Aldershot are 19th in the fifth tier having won three of their 14 games this season.

Widdrington oversaw one of the most famous days in Shots history as they beat Spennymoor Town 3-0 in front of 18,000 of their own fans at Wembley to lift the FA Trophy.

"Aldershot Town Football Club can confirm that Tommy Widdrington has informed the club of his resignation as first-team manager," a club statement said., external

"Hugo Langton and Alan Dowson will be overseeing first-team affairs ahead of Saturday's game against Tamworth.

"The club will be making no further comment at this stage."

At the start of 2025 Widdrington had to step away temporarily after suffering two strokes.

After winning the FA Trophy in May he said that the support he had received from the people of Aldershot after his health scares was "incredible".

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 18TH OCTOBER KO 3:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



Our first proper hammering came after 12 games as in form Coventry put five past us. It didn't take long for Coventry to take the lead when Asante scored from close range following a corner. After a brief stoppage in play for a pitch invasion, Coventry made it 0-2 when Asante fired in past Horvath. It was 0-3 on HT when Wright tapped in although he was a couple of yards, poor officiating just for a change. Onto the 2nd half and Coventry added a a couple of more goals, Simms tapping in after a cross and Sakamoto drilling in after we failed to clear a cross. Brown had a chance for a consolation but headed just over.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Our first game after the international break sees us travel south to take on Charlton. Charlton have done ok, so far this season, with 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats, and are the highest of the 3 promoted teams from last season. Realistically, they should be looking to stay away from the relegation battle and should have enough to do that and a bottom half finish looks likely. They are managed by Nathan Jones, who has had several jobs, his stints at Luton being his most successful. There leading scorers this season are Bree and Carey with 2 goals each with Bree having 2 assists aswell.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 26
CHAR 20
DRAW 16

CURRENT FORM

OWLS   L D D W L L                                                            

CHAR L D W W D L

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

TOM REEVES
Edward Smart and Mark Stevens
Fourth Official: David Webb

THE TEAM

Horvath
Palmer Iorfa Weaver M Lowe Amass
Valery Ingelsson Bannan
Brown Cadamarteri

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Brown

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

56

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Maddix 5
SCO 3
Owlkev 3
Imre 1
Washington 1

BMPL

Stateside 5
Pei -5
Wereham -11
Southey -12

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Brighton v Newcastle
Norwich v Bristol City
Bradford v Barnsley
Grimsby v Gillingham
Carlisle v Forest Green

DAHDD

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

hello you lot
aint posted a thread on here in a while

hope your all well

point of this post is thus

have fallen out with football...i don`t attend games i don`t watch it on t.v either
all i do these days are look at the results on a saturday

football aint football as i used to view it

everything was fine until sky decided to monopolise it
anyone remember all games kicked off at 3.00pm on a saturday?

the game was fine till they took over
sending west brom up to middlesbrough a few weeks back on a friday night!!!
stupid subscription fees
and most of the time all they show are the likes of city,united,liverpool etc etc

they dont care about genuine fans any longer....but did they ever?
them,they...it  are bleeding football dry
pricing fans out of attending games
stupid kick off times

all they are bothered about is money
not the real fans

Former Arsenal and England midfielder Jack Wilshere has been named manager of League One side Luton Town.

The 33-year-old succeeds Matt Bloomfield, who was sacked earlier this month having spent less than a year in charge at Kenilworth Road.

It is Wilshere's first full-time managerial role, taking over a Luton side 11th in the third tier following back-to-back relegations.

He beat Leyton Orient boss Richie Wellens to the role and is believed to have signed a three-year deal.

Chris Powell has also joined Luton as Wilshere's assistant - the former England left-back had been at Walsall for just two weeks as interim first-team coach, coming in to cover for Gary Waddock as he recovers from ankle surgery.

"It's a huge honour and a privilege to be named Luton Town manager," Wilshere told the club's official site, having left the Hatters aged nine to join Arsenal.

"It feels like a full-circle moment for me. I was eight when I first came to Luton as a boy, so I guess you could say it's fate that my first full-time club managerial position is at this club.

"This club's story inspires me. Built on belief, unity, and hard work.

"The club have shown incredible character on and off the pitch in recent times, and I'm honoured to lead to take the responsibility to lead this group into the future

After retiring as a player in 2022, Wilshere had a spell in charge of Arsenal's under-18 team, and spent much of last season as a first-team coach at Championship club Norwich City.

He was named interim head coach for the Canaries' final two league games following Johannes Hoff Thorup's departure, before leaving Carrow Road at the end of the campaign.

Luton won promotion to the Premier League under Rob Edwards in 2023, but the Hatters spent just one season in the top flight and suffered a second consecutive relegation last season.

Bloomfield was appointed when Edwards left Kenilworth Road in January, but the former Wycombe Wanderers boss was unable to keep Luton in the Championship and won only 12 of his 33 games in charge.

Wilshere's first match as Luton manager will be a home fixture against Mansfield Town on Saturday.

"He has impressed everyone involved in our extensive selection process with his passion for football, his determination to succeed in management and his deep knowledge of all things Luton Town," said Hatters chief executive Gary Sweet.

Wilshere made his professional debut as a 16-year-old for Arsenal in 2008 and twice won the FA Cup with the Gunners, making almost 200 appearances before leaving for West Ham United in 2018.

He later had spells with Bournemouth and Danish side Aarhus before retiring aged 30.

At international level Wilshere played 34 times for England, appearing at the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016.